Liz Truss has refused to commit to raising benefits in line with inflation, despite growing pressure from a cabinet minister and senior Tory MPs.

It took 10 days for the most eye-catching and controversial element of Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget to unravel.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.

Herschel Walker, a Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for the US Senate in Georgia who has opposed abortion rights, has denied a report claiming he paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend in 2009.

Ringo Starr has cancelled shows in North America after testing positive for COVID.

Two fishermen appear to have been caught hook, line and sinker after allegedly putting weights in their catch to try and cheat in a fishing tournament.

Four women are to give up their home comforts to live and work in a remote part of Antarctica.

The Queen of Denmark has apologised to her family after stripping four of her grandchildren of their royal titles.

At a small independent record store tucked away in a neat courtyard of shops next to St Albans' famous cathedral, a vinyl record that one band is hoping could become the most expensive ever sold in the UK is about to be released.

A woman is facing the death penalty after being found guilty of killing a 21-year-old and cutting her unborn baby from her womb.